Almotamar.net, Saba - Vice President Abduh Raboh Mansor Hadi attended on Tuesday a ceremony of launching national campaign for supporting cancer patients which is staged under sponsorship of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

The campaign is organized by the national corporation of combating cancer under slogan "It is Still a Hope for Life".

In the ceremony, Hadi delivered a speech in which he conveyed regards of president Saleh to the attendants, expressing appreciation of the state and the government for the humanitarian efforts exerted by the corporation to help the government in combating cancer.

The vice president pointed out to the concern of the state to reduce suffering of cancer patients, saying that the president Saleh has given orders to set up five center of cancer
treatment.

He also asked from the government to study possibilities of allocating percentage from revenues of mobile services for efforts of combating the illness, wishing success for the
campaign.

For his part, the minister of public health and population Abdul-Karim Rase said that the campaign would highlight suffering of the cancer patients, praising role of the national corporation in
offering assistance for these patients. Since its establishment in 2004, the national center of caring cancer tumor received 13,000 cases, the minister said, and the center offers care for 120 cases daily.

Rase added that the center could not receive growing number of cases which leads to open further centers in the governorates.

At the end of the ceremony, the door of donation was opened as several businessmen, social figures, citizens and government and local institutions as well as Emirates Red Crescent announced their contributions which reached up to YR 685 million.

Saba